English Lesson 6 timeline- 1. There needs to be 5 "present scenes" and 5 "past scenes" for a total of 10 slides. 2. At the end of the powerpoint, have a bibliography that credits where you got the photos from and provide all the separate links of all the photos you used in the powerpoint (tedious I know, but the teacher wants to show that you credit your work properly) 3. The slides need to be in order in terms of what events happen first in the story and etc. :) Please pay attention to this factor! Piper Pugh + Mrs. Shafer + AP Literature and Composition + 23 May 2015 Everything that could go wrong in Thebes has, and the way to rid themselves of the curse, the murderer of Laius must be punished. This picture is of the Priest of Zeus, the priest which praises Oedipus and asks for his help in re- storing order in Thebes. As people are centered around the altar and the priest, Oedipus enters and asks the priest to “explain [his] mood and purport.” He explains that “the God of Plague/ Hath swooped upon [their] city,” that everything that could go wrong has. He asks Oedipus to solve this, chanting, “Upraise, O chief of men, upraise our State!” Just as Oedipus says that he had Creon to “inquire of Pythian Phoebus at his Delphic shrine,” Creon arrives, looking “joyous,” according to the king. Creon explains that they must look for the man who killed the previous king, Laius, and he says that the only clue that they have is that a band of thieves attacked and murdered him while he was abroad. Creon tells Oedipus that “the god’s com- mand is plain: Punish his takers-off, whoe’er they be.” Oedipus, despite some initial apprehension, agrees to help “avenge this wrong.” Oedipus demands that if anyone knows anything they speak up, as he says “Thebans, if any knows the man by whom Laius, son of Labdacus, was slain, I summon him to make clean shrift to me.” He also threatens that if someone knows some- thing and does not say anything, he will face the “worst penalty.” The chorus suggests to Oedipus that he should speak with the prophet lord Teiresias, explaining that “he of all men best might guide a searcher of this matter to the light.” Having already been sent for, Teiresias arrives. After a series of protests, a prophet reveals that the killer of Laius is King Oedipus. In the picture, the prophet Teiresias is shown as he appears in many adapta- tions of the play. The white cloth placed over his eyes is used to indicate his blindness. The chorus suggests to Oedipus that he should speak with the prophet lord Teiresias, explaining that “he of all men best might guide a searcher of this matter to the light.” Having already been sent for, Teiresias arrives. Teiresias is described as being in a “melancholy mood” by Oedipus and asks if he go home. Oedipus tells him that any true patriot would not “withhold the word of prophecy.” Teiresia ...

1. English Lesson 6 timeline-
1. There needs to be 5 "present scenes" and 5 "past scenes" for a
total of 10 slides.
2. At the end of the powerpoint, have a bibliography that credits
where you got the photos from and provide all the separate links
of all the photos you used in the powerpoint (tedious I know,
but the teacher wants to show that you credit your work
properly)
3. The slides need to be in order in terms of what events happen
first in the story and etc. :) Please pay attention to this factor!
Piper Pugh + Mrs. Shafer + AP Literature and Composition + 23
May 2015
Everything that could go wrong in Thebes has, and the way to
rid
themselves of the curse, the murderer of Laius must be
punished.
This picture is of the Priest of Zeus, the priest
which praises Oedipus and asks for his help in re-
storing order in Thebes.

2. As people are centered around the altar and the
priest, Oedipus enters and asks the priest to
“explain [his] mood and purport.” He explains
that “the God of Plague/ Hath swooped upon
[their] city,” that everything that could go wrong
has. He asks Oedipus to solve this, chanting,
“Upraise, O chief of men, upraise our State!”
Just as Oedipus says that he had Creon to “inquire
of Pythian Phoebus at his Delphic shrine,” Creon
arrives, looking “joyous,” according to the king.
Creon explains that they must look for the man
who killed the previous king, Laius, and he says
that the only clue that they have is that a band of
thieves attacked and murdered him while he was
abroad. Creon tells Oedipus that “the god’s com-
mand is plain: Punish his takers-off, whoe’er they
be.”
Oedipus, despite some initial apprehension,

3. agrees to help “avenge this wrong.”
Oedipus demands that if anyone knows anything
they speak up, as he says “Thebans, if any knows
the man by whom Laius, son of Labdacus, was
slain, I summon him to make clean shrift to me.”
He also threatens that if someone knows some-
thing and does not say anything, he will face the
“worst penalty.”
The chorus suggests to Oedipus that he should
speak with the prophet lord Teiresias, explaining
that “he of all men best might guide a searcher of
this matter to the light.”
Having already been sent for, Teiresias arrives.
After a series of protests, a prophet reveals that the killer of
Laius
is King Oedipus.
In the picture, the prophet Teiresias is

4. shown as he appears in many adapta-
tions of the play. The white cloth placed
over his eyes is used to indicate his
blindness.
The chorus suggests to Oedipus that he should
speak with the prophet lord Teiresias, explaining
that “he of all men best might guide a searcher of
this matter to the light.”
Having already been sent for, Teiresias arrives.
Teiresias is described as being in a “melancholy
mood” by Oedipus and asks if he go home. Oedipus
tells him that any true patriot would not “withhold
the word of prophecy.”
Teiresias continues to refuse to speak and angers
Oedipus.
Teiresias reveals that Oedipus is the killer, saying
“thou art the man, thou the accursed polluter of this

5. land.”
Oedipus asks Teiresias to “repeat it” and “say it
again” because he “but half caught thy meaning.”
Teiresias again states that he is the murderer.
Oedipus becomes more angry with Teiresias and
makes a comment regarding his blindness.
After the prophet revealed his belief that the king was the killer,
Oedipus accuses Creon of plotting to steal his throne.
In an adaption of the play “Oedipus the
King,” the king is shown gripping onto
Creon. He feels particularly betrayed be-
cause Creon was his “familial friend.”
Oedipus asks whether this “is a plot of Creon” or
Teiresias.
Teiresias and Oedipus exit after the prophet tells
Oedipus that he is not “an alien in the land” but is

6. a “Theban, native born,” that he is both the
brother and the father of the children in his home,
and that he is his mother’s son and husband.
The strophe is “perplexed,” and the antistrophe
finds it challenging to blame the man who “saved
[their] State].”
Oedipus accuses him of being full of “spite and
envy” and accuses “trusty” Creon of “[laying] in
wait to oust [him]” from the throne. He believes that
the men are trying to make him the “scapegoat.”
Teiresias asks “dost know thy lineage?” He also
tells Oedipus “see’st not in what misery thou art
fallen...nor with whom for mate.”
Creon enters after learning of the “most grievous
change” that Oedipus “hath laid against [him]”.
Oedipus enters and calls him “[his’ murderer and
filcher of [his] crown.” Creon attempts to “to make
reply” but Oedipus does not allow him to.

7. Oedipus questions Creon, asking whether Teiresias
was a prophet when Laius died and why he
“failed...to tell his story then.”
Creon discusses how he would not ever want to be
king, asking “how could a title then have charms for
me above the sweets of boundless influence.”
Oedipus threatens to kill Creon, saying “I would not
have thee banished, no, but dead…”
Jocasta enters. She scolds them for putting their per-
sonal lives on display for the “whole land.”
He lets Creon go, stating that he is doing in for his wife, not
him, and that he will still hate him wherever he goes.
After he learns some specific details surrounding Laius’s death,
King Oedipus first realizes that he is the likely killer.
This picture is a map which shows
where the three roads from Delphi,
Daulia, and Thebes intersect in Phocis.

8. This is the location where Oedipus
killed his father.
Jocasta wants to understand what has occurred,
pleading to “make thjs clear.”
He tells her that Creon used the prophet, “a knav-
ish seer,” to name him as Laius’s murderer..
She attempts to “ease [his] conscience by telling
him the story of her child who was killed.
After figuring out the location of Laius’s death and
what he looked like, Oedipus cries “O woe is me!
Methinks unwittingly I laid but now a dread curse
on myself.”
He tells Jocasta to find the sole survivor of the inci-
dent, a serf, to question him.
Oedipus tells Jocasta that if the man “speaks of rob-
bers, not a robber” he did not kill him. However, if
he says there was only one man, he will believe that

9. he is guilty.
After a messenger reveals that his father had died on natural
causes,
Oedipus experiences short lived relief at the supposed falsity of
the
prophecy.
In a version of the play in which
all the characters wear masks, the
me s s e n g e r f r o m O e d i p u s ’s
“native” land arrives to tell him
about his adoptive father.
A messenger arrives saying that Oedipus’s father
has died of natural causes and that “the Isthmian
commons have resolved to make [Oedipus] king.”
Jocasta is happy about this news, and Oedipus de-
cides that the oracle was false. She essentially states
that she had been telling him this all along, and he

10. says he “was misled by fear.” He experiences relief
that he will not marry his mother.
The messenger reveals that Polybus is not the father of Oedipus
and that he himself gave the baby to the childless man after the
baby was found on a mountain.
This picture to the right is
of a shepherd with the
young Oedipus among the
trees. In the photo, the fa-
cial expression of the man,
revealing possible nervous-
ness or worry, is an impor-
tant aspect to note.
The messenger tells Oedipus hat Polybus is not his
father and that he himself had given him to Polybus
after another shepherd found him on the mountain

11. with bound ankles.
The man who found was a herdsman of the Laius,
whom Oedipus then tries to locate. He asks Jocasta,
who tells him to “let it be.” He thinks that she does
not want him to continue because of “her pride of
ancestry;” he thinks she is upset that he is not from
royalty.
(More of the information from this section can be
found in the Past Timeline)
Jocasta then exits, saying that she will be forever
quiet.
The herdsman reveals after much hesitation that the baby that
he
gave to the messenger was the child of Laius and Jocasta, and
Oedipus puts everything together.
In this picture, the man in the
background is the messenger,
while the man in gray is the

12. herdsman speaking to King Oedi-
pus.
The herdsman enters, and the messenger asks if he
remembers giving him a child. The herdsman ac-
cuses him of “[babbling] like a fool.”
He eventually reveals that the child was Laius’s and
that he was supposed to “make away with it.”
Oedipus finally puts everything together and exits.
(Much of what occurs in this part is discussed in the
past timeline.)
A second messenger reveals that after discovering the truth, a
dis-
traught Jocasta kills herself, and Oedipus gauges out his eyes.
The photo to the right is of King Oedipus
after using his wife/mother’s brooch to
blind himself. The blood can be seen com-

13. ing from his eyes.
The picture to the left was a cover of the playbill and
the advertisement for an adaption of the play. King
Oedipus is seen with blood dripping from his eyes
after he blinds himself.
A second messenger reveals that Jocasta has com-
mitted suicide by hanging herself,.
Oedipus “tore the golden brooches” from her
clothes and plunged them into his eyeballs.
He asks Creon to “send [him] from the land an exile.”
An oracle, a minister of the Delphic god, came to King Laius
and told him that he would be killed
by his son with Jocasta.
At three days old, the child, Oedipus, was left with his ankles
tied “on the trackless mountain
side.”

14. The messenger, a shepherd, gave the king, Polybus, a childless
man, Oedipus after another shep-
herd gave the baby to him in Cithaeron’s wooded glens with his
feet bound.
This picture is of Oedipus the King with Themis, a goddess
who prophesized for Apollo, depicted on a cup from the fifth
century B.C.E.
This picture is of the mountain Cithaeron where
the baby, young Oedipus, was supposed to be left by a
herdsman.
In this photograph, the baby is being given to the
messenger, a shepherd, by the herdsman who wanted
for the baby to be able to live.
He was taken care of and became the son of Polybus of Corinth
and Merope, a Dorian.
A man told Oedipus that he was “not the true son of thy sire.”
He questioned his parents who were
“indignant at the random slur.”
He went to Delphi without telling his parents, and Apollo told
him that he would “defile [his]

15. mother’s bed and kill his father.
Oedipus exiled himself after hearing that he would kill his
father and marry his mother.
This picture is of Polybus of Corinth and Merope, who were
without a child and adopted young Oedipus.
This painting by Rubik Kocharian and depicts Oedi-
pus the King in the temple of Apollo. This was made in
2002.
Oedipus killed Laius and th e other men he was with where
three roads met in Phocis.
Oedipus solves the Sphinx’s riddle, becomes king, and married
Jocasta.
The messenger, a shepherd, gave the king, Polybus, a childless
man, Oedipus after another shep-
herd found him in Cithaeron’s wooded glens with his feet
bound.
https://www.pinterest.com/
pin/575053446140565307/
This photo , painted by Francois-

16. Xavier Fabre in the 18th century, depicts
Oedipus and the Sphinx. His solving of
the riddle made him respected and re-
vered in Thebes.
In this photo, Oedi- pus is killing Laius
and his men. The painting is by French
painter Paul Joesph Blanc.
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Present :The people of Thebes going to ask Oedipus the King to
save them from the plague
Past: Oedipus had solved the Sphinx’s riddle and saved the City

18. of Thebes, ending the monster’s control over it.
Present: The blind prophet Teiresias telling Oedipus that he was
the reason behind the city’s plague.
Present: Oedipus and Creon arguing after Oedipus accuses him
of conspiring with Teiresias to rob him of the crown.
Present: Jocasta and Oedipus discussing the prophecy and how
they had cheated fate.
Present: The messenger from Corinth telling Oedipus how he
had rescued him as a child and taken him to King Polybus. The
shepherd was brought to corroborate the story.
Past: Oedipus’ altercation at the crossroads. It was during this
incident that he unknowingly killed his father, King Laius.
Present: Oedipus stabs his eyes when he realizes that he has not
escaped the Oracle’s prophecy.